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My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

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In July 1969, the US Senator Edward Kennedy was involved in a car accident which resulted in the death of a young woman.

The Chappiquitic incident, as it became known, ended the youngest Kennedy brother's hopes

of becoming President of the United States.

In 2014, I spoke to the former police chief who dealt with the

accident. If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air,

quaint little village. It's mid-July Quaid little villages here and there

It's mid July 1969 and the summertime home of many of America's rich and famous, the island of Martha's Vineyard, is just waking up.

On Saturday morning, I got up my usual time and walked down to work, walked in the

office and greeted Cameron Salvador who was a combination secretary and

police woman. I've been there no more than 20 minutes when she had a call

that someone was reporting. There was a car in the water off the Dyke Bridge.

Jim Arena is the police chief in Edgar Town on the east coast of Martha's Vineyard.

He takes a ferry across the short stretch of water to Chappiquidic Island.

When I got there, I saw the car upside down on the water and I said I really wonder if there's somebody in there I think there's somebody in there

I walked out partially swam out drove into the water a little bit and unfortunately the tide was against me and I just decided to get back up on the car and wait for the arrival of the fine apartment.

One of my first cruises to arrive at the scene, I read off the license plate number to him and when he looked it up in the books that we kept in the station, he came back that it was Edward Kennedy's and I said, oh my goodness, it sounded like another family tragedy, you know.

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